BracketBuster breakdown

The one problem the BracketBuster concept can encounter is if there are only a handful of really, really good mid-majors, there will only be a couple truly compelling games.

That’s not to say a Buffalo-Vermont meeting can’t be good. It probably will be fairly entertaining. But if the point is to live up to the event’s name – to help teams bust into the NCAA tournament bracket – there’s really only a handful of teams that can be helped.

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One of those is Butler-Davidson. Another is Utah State-Saint Mary’s. And a third, arguably, is Northern Iowa-Siena.

The rest of these are some really nice late-season nonconference games. George Mason-Creighton certainly qualifies as a game that should be interesting. Ditto for Illinois State-Niagara.

But there probably won’t be much significance beyond that on this schedule: